Widesreen movies?!


Question: whats the difference between wide screen and full? i kno full is full and wide screen cuts off your picture on ur tv.so what is better?im just curious


Answers: whats the difference between wide screen and full? i kno full is full and wide screen cuts off your picture on ur tv.so what is better?im just curious

In wide screen, the picture is squeezed down so it fills the sides, but leaves those black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. In full screen, the picture is more or less centered and the sides are lopped off.

The problem is that all movies nowadays (if that's a real word) are filmed/presented in some wide-screen format. This make transference to a small screen very difficult unless they change the format to fit your screen.

The problem with full screen is that there is often some important images/information on the sides of the picture that get cut off. I remember the first video version of a favorite John Wayne film actually had the picture of two noses having a conversation! They had lopped off the rest of the actors' faces!

That's why I always watch the wide-screen version if there is one!

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OAR actually, original aspect ratio. Some movies and tv shows were made in Widescreen, you get more picture and you see the film as the maker intended. There is a tendency to crop this image to fit fullscreen TVs, it generally zooms in to an important part of the screen, pan and scanning the major action or sometimes it is just a fixed area. You lose nearly half of the intended image. The black bars on top and bottom preserve the correct aspect ratio and are good, providing the viewer with more image.

A good many older films and TV shows are intended to be fullscreen. Now that we have widescreen TVs, there have been some occurences where an originally intended fullscreen show was cropped for widescreen such as Kung-Fu Season 1 and most recently Roots. This is just as bad as the other.

So widescreen is good if it was suppose to be widescreen originally, and there are many variations of widescreen, and fullscreen is good if it was originally suppose to be fullscreen but it is bad to alter them, to pan & Scam.

So make sure it is OAR (Original Aspect Ratio) and not MAR (Modified Aspect Ratio). MAR DVDs generally say Modified or Formatted to fit Your Screen in small print on the box.

in full screen the edges are cut off, in widescreen you get full picture

If you're watching something filmed in widescreen, but it takes up your whole TV screen, you're missing parts (off the sides). I prefer widescreen, because it better preserves the original cinematography.

Theatrical movies are shown on a screen with a different aspect ratio than a television screen. Typically, a movie is shot with an aspect ratio of 1:2.85 (1 foot high, 2.85 feet wide) while a TV screen has an aspect ratio of 1:1.33 (1 foot high, 1.33 feet wide). When you see a disclaimer at the start of a movie being shown on TV that says something to the effect of "this movie has been formatted to the size of your TV screen" what you are being told is that the editor has chopped the left and right edges of the original film so that the image fills up your screen. In a widescreen format, you see the film in it's original dimensions but, in order for that to show on the more square TV screen, it has to be framed, with blank areas on the top and bottom of the screen.
Which is better? I prefer the widescreen format. There's a sacrifice in image size (top to bottom) on the TV screen but it's more than made up for in being able to view the film in it's original theatrical format (side to side).



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